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5 AutoData | November 2018 Composure Ricardo Martins: Does anyone know? By Vicente Alessi, filho Suggestions, criticism, comments, offenses and the like for this column can be directed to the email vi@autodata.com.br Disclousure/FCA APOLITICAL? NO WAY! Also Anfavea, a middle-aged lady with a certain habit of cultivating a youthful appearance, which was formerly well- known as The Powerful One, did not escape to step on the mud - and in two similarly electoral episodes, which shows that historical experiences are not exactly transmitted from father to son inside the entity on Indianapolis Avenue. There are no more guardians of the history there or of good manners. First: in Brasília, DF, in a meeting with… political reporters, which the entity is not used to, its president Antônio Megale admits that the automotive sector already knows the PT (a political party) way and that the other candidate was unknown. The reporters left lunch with the conviction that the vehicle industry would support “the already known” one. There was a rush and it was necessary to release the note the following day, and go through an internal and external stress: the entity is apolitical, has no candidates… no way! APOLITICAL? NO WAY! 2 The second episode was even worse than throwing the president at the piranhas and, for this reason, it is suspected that it was a set up. It was like this: the other candidate’s campaign calls for entities presence that represent the Brazilian exporter world to show his claims - and a director of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles was there, Antônio Sérgio Martins Mello, also director of AEB, the Foreign Trade Association of Brazil. The reporters received his FCA visiting card and he was dismissed after the photo and claiming nothing, apparently considered normal those circumstances. And the photo won the media soon, with caption text announcing new support for that campaign – including Anfavea’s support, of which Antônio Sérgio has the position of vice president. More rush again with the reaffirmation of the note: the entity is apolitical and etc... Just rubbish. APOLITICAL? NO WAY! 3 These are two inconceivable episodes, implausible for the profile of the beloved Anfavea, discreet, almost somber. Where is your historical accumulated institutional experience, your peculiar way of acting, to say we are here, to potentials powers? I know two or three former directors who, if they were around, wouldn’t have allowed the two episodes even over their dead bodies. For the sake of history it is worth remembering when an executive of the same company carried out the attempted agency entities and companies in the automotive sector in supporting the candidate of that time. After much effort, believe me, only the donation of a Ferrari F40 for one and a miserable Elba station-wagon to another was ascertained. It has been vaguely heard a talk of a couple trip to Paris, of an unexpected toothache, of a solitary visit to the bank and of an urgent return, also solitary, to Brasilia with a briefcase on the lap... The end of this process generated the only competitive advantage that the automotive sector knew at the time, known as Uno Mille - remember? But this is only the fertile imagination of those who have nothing else to do, right?